Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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A man's what he thinks about all day long